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Three for Chapter 11

Posted on December 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Three for Chapter 11

by Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPage Magazine | Dec. 15, 2008 As North America headed into the 2008 Winter Solstice, economists darkly predicted that U.S. unemployment would rise from a current 6.7 percent to 8.1 percent by December 2009. On average, … Continue reading →

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Hugging Shari’a finance at the Fed

Posted on December 10, 2008 | 3 Comments

How tough is Obama’s new economic tough guy? by Alyssa A. Lappen Frontpage Magazine | Dec. 10, 2008 The first market day after President-elect Obama announced plans to appoint Federal Reserve Bank of New York president Timothy Geithner as Secretary … Continue reading →

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No more appeals

Posted on July 15, 2008 | Comments Off on No more appeals

EHRENFELD/LAPPEN Palestine must pay terror victims By Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Washington Times | July 15, 2008 OP-ED: The Palestinian Authority (PA) recently asked U.S. federal courts to reopen cases it lost after refusing to defend itself against … Continue reading →

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Clean Production of Renewable Fuels through the Vaporization of Garbage

Posted on July 7, 2008 | Comments Off on Clean Production of Renewable Fuels through the Vaporization of Garbage

Ed Dodge Cornell University – Johnson Graduate School of Management Queens University School of Business July 2008 References: 22: Alyssa A. Lappen and Jack Lauber, “Waste Not,” Times Union, Dec. 3, 2006. All Articles, Poems & Commentaries Copyright © 1971-2021 … Continue reading →

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Congress should outlaw shari’a finance

Posted on June 2, 2008 | Comments Off on Congress should outlaw shari’a finance

By Alyssa A. Lappen Washington Examiner | June 2, 2008 A spate of conferences in the U.S. recently on Islamic banking — i.e. shari’a finance — signals a worrisome American blindness to the budding industry’s inherent dangers. Among the perils … Continue reading →

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Shari’a Financing and the Coming Ummah

Posted on June 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Shari’a Financing and the Coming Ummah

Shari’a finance is a new weapon in the arsenal of what might be termed fifth-generation
warfare (5GW). The perpetrators include both states and organizations, advancing a
global totalitarian ideology disguised as a religion. The end goal is to impose that ideology
worldwide, making the Islamic “nation,” or ummah, supreme.

* FROM Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency; Edited by Jeffrey Norwitz; U.S. Naval War College, June 2008. Chapter 28. Continue reading →

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